That might work for some people, but as you mentioned, you wouldn't get to build your app in a REPL. Also, you'd lose access to the concurrency features of Clojure, and would probably also not get to use native Android APIs.
On Saturday, February 8, 2014 9:57:38 PM UTC-5, curiousGuy wrote: > > Another interesting consideration regarding Clojure on Android (or any > other local OS)... > > As of Qt 5, Javascript is a first-class language for developing apps, and > Qt 5 officially supports Android, iOS, in addition to its prior support for > OSX, Windows, Linux, etc. You can get nearly all app logic working in JS if > you wish (and many do just that). > > So I see no reason you couldn't use ClojureScript to design Android apps, > and dump the compiled code into Qt. You'd simply need to know the Qt Quick > UI bindings that are accessible via Javascript. The new UI kit can > automatically handle fluid UI animations and other modern mobile styles. > > Of course, you still must compile in Qt before the app runs on any OS, so > a REPL probably wouldn't be a fit for this workflow. > > On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 11:48:55 AM UTC+8, Zach Oakes wrote: >> >> Alex put together a great website that may answer your questions: >> >> http://clojure-android.info/ >> >> If you have any questions afterwards, feel free to post to the >> clojure-android group: >> >> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/clojure-android >> >> On Monday, February 3, 2014 3:17:46 PM UTC-5, Erlis Vidal wrote: >>> >>> Hi group, >>> >>> I'll be starting a project in Android and I was wondering if I could use >>> clojure as my programming language. Any update/recommendation about this. >>> Will the application have acceptable performance? If not the entire app, >>> can I write at least some libraries in clojure and call them from my java >>> code? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Erlis >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
